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...passed into our national vocabulary, artists from JoAnne Akalaitis to the cabal of Hollywood dignitaries behind The day After have all imagined that they could do what Kubrick couldn't: influence the course of the arms race. Fearlessly armed with the facts and logical arguments, but rarely a smidgen of dramatic or narrative strength they can call their own, the anti-nuclear advocates carry on despite 20 years of null impact on American or Soviet policy. It's ironic that until very recently, both this nation's nuclear strategists and their foes still relied on vintage 60's ideas...
...Heads put forward some experimentation. The Western beat in "Creatures of Love" and the gospel-like beginning of "Road to Nowhere" are two examples. Even a smidgen of Far Eastern jingles start off "The Lady Don't Mind." The risks they take here, however, are not nearly as daring as their extensive work with African music several years ago. No keys to the avant-garde will be issued here...
...every Broadway musical this season, "Nine" suffers from a dearth of feeling, a kind of aseptic hole in the heart. "Nine" is a case of a spectacle without a subject. This time, the clothes have no emperor. Like a shell game, this musical teases the eye without stimulating a smidgen of affectional concern. Admittedly, these are extremely pretty shells to watch: the splendiferous costumes of William Ivey Long; the 21-count 'em-21 girls, many of them leggy thoroughbreds; Scenic Designer Lawrence Miller's seductively panoramic view of Venice...
Coach Frank McLaughlin last night could afford to sit back, rotate some players and let the clock finish off the game and the losing era. Junior forward Tom Clarke had the honor of hitting a lay-up at the buzzer, guaranteeing him a smidgen of immortality. After the sparse crowd filed out, and while a baby McLaughlin and a baby Fleming played on the deserted bleachers, one of the old wooden backboards, as if of its own volition, sank slowly into the ready position. Intramurals...
...reason Cybil Shepherd flopped on the screen: she could never play anything but herself in her films, and so her characters did not benefit from the careful analysis and mental exercise actors must usually perform when preparing for a role--and she did not require any more than a smidgen of concentration, indispensable for a sensitive interpretation of any role, to play herself...